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Tech Week: Google's Plans, Aereo's Loss And Occupied Stalls

An attendee wears a Google Android Mascot hat during the Google I/O Developers Conference in San Francisco.

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It's officially summer, but there's no slowdown on the technology news front. Here's your weekly roundup of notable stories in tech, from the team at NPR and beyond.

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Aereo No Longer?: The Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, decided that the streaming TV startup Aereo's service, which lets users watch and record live TV from Internet-connected devices, is in violation of copyright laws. This means Aereo will either have to dramatically retool, or shut down. As I reported for All Things Considered, users are expecting it to go away, and furiously binge-watching their recorded programs before it's too late.

Green Light, Go: When you just need to find an open restroom stall but are unable to tell which one might be available, having to bend down and see if there are feet behind the door feels pretty intrusive, not to mention acrobatic. This week's innovation pick, written by our intern Allie Caren, is a simple light system that indicates whether a stall is open. (File under: Why hasn't this always been around?)

About 85 million homes subscribe to Internet service, but as much as 30 percent of households are crawling along the information superhighway with slow connections. However, fast mobile connections more than doubled, to 93 million, last year.